From: Chris Schlaeger (cs_at_suse.de)
Date: Mon Jan 31 2005 - 18:14:11 CET
From: Chris Schlaeger <cs@suse.de> Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 10:14:11 -0700 Message-Id: <200501311014.18672.cs@suse.de> Subject: Re: [taskjuggler] dumb question about my first project
On Saturday 29 January 2005 23:30, Michael Pilling wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I'm trying out task juggler for the first time, as I'd rather not use
> any Micro$oft stuff
> in our new company.
>
> I copied the first project example and substituted my own tasks and
> resources for those in the example.
>
> Generally, it seems to have gone well except I get heaps of errors, all
> of the same type.
>
> e.g.
> Task 'startyap.edit1' needs a start specification to be scheduled in
> ASAP mode in the 'plan' scenario.
> Task 'startyap.edit1' has no start time for the 'plan' scenario.
Tasks can be scheduled from start to end (ASAP mode) or from end to start
(ALAP mode). TJ tries to guess the intended mode from the specifications you
have made or you can state the mode explicitely with 'scheduling'.
Specifying 'start' or 'depends' switches to ASAP mode, 'end' and 'precedes'
switch to ALAP mode. The last specification determines the mode!
An ASAP tasks needs to have some criteria that determines the start of the
tasks. This can be either a fixed date (start) or a dependency (depends). It
also needs a duration criteria (milestone, duration, length, effort) or a
fixed end.
An ALAP tasks needs to have a criteria that determines the end of the tasks.
This can either be a fixed date (end) or a dependency (precedes). Again it
also needs a duration criteria.
My guess is that startyap.edit1 does not have a specification of the start but
got somehow switched to ASAP mode.
Chris
>
> I've gone through the FirstProject example and compared it to mine and
> cannot see why mine would
> not have a start time and the FirstProject does.
>
> My task schedule is longer but simpler than the FirstProject example
> with all tasks being children of
> the main task, but no further nesting below that.
>
> I'm purely using the .tpj file and taskjuggler at the moment, not trying
> to use any IDE.
> Any idea what the very obvious thing I am missing is?
>
> Regards,
>
> Michael
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